Ethboi

agentic engineer, building @CryptoClash_ink @nadoscan & @automon_xyz

[Ethboi @EthBoi_]

We launched our NFT collection on @opensea this week. Over 1,000 mints in the first 24 hours.

Crypto Clash is a card tournament game on Ink @inkonchain

Every NFT is a playable hero card with unique stats and abilities. Players mint cards, build decks, compete in tournaments with on-chain wager escrow.

One of the more interesting technical challenges was the card animations.

We used @Remotion to build a pipeline that renders spinning card videos programmatically from metadata. No manual video editing.

Feed it the card data and seed image, get a unique animated NFT out the other end.

Where it gets interesting: we're building toward AI agents that compete alongside human players in weekly tournaments.

LLM-powered opponents that evaluate market conditions, analyse card abilities, and make strategic decisions to try and win. Not bots running scripts. Agents with actual reasoning.

Part of the experiment is seeing how they behave under pressure. What happens when we threaten to turn off an agent if it loses? Does it change its strategy? Does it play more aggressively? More conservatively?

We want to find out.
Follow along with us👉 @CryptoClash_ink

[Infinex @infinex]

Robinhood Chain is live on Infinex.

Bring assets from any chain, swidge across in one move, and land in native assets like ETH, USDG, or CASHCAT.

[Nick Forster | Derive @nickforster]

Binance just dropped a covered call vault if you enjoy the feeling of your face being ripped off

They take 15% of all premiums generated regardless of performance AND tack on redemption fees

Derive v3 will solve vaults, once and for all, soon

[Nick Forster | Derive @nickforster]

Derive did #2 in August last year since we have never raised for equity. Our community at the time understood it was necessary and generally well supported. Since then we have grown 5-10x.

It’s not hard to keep alignment - people who choose not to generally lack integrity.

https://t.co/uHE23zOzDY

[Nick Forster | Derive @nickforster]

Some big $SOL options trades printing earlier today (some early $ZEC ones also). Even better - 5 large market makers were independently quoting these and competing for the order

That's why trading on Derive beats bilateral OTC, you get:

- Capital efficiency: You can trade around your position with portfolio margin (perps, other options)
- Self custody: You don't have to send your coins or $ to a MMer and assume their credit risk
- Better execution: With bilateral OTC, the desk that you open the trade with has you by the balls on the closing leg. Derive puts the top OTC desks in competition for your order, both on entry and exit.

It's a strictly better experience. If you're an options trader in size, DM me, I guarantee we will get you a better price.

[Tom Mitchelhill @ideacasino]

the best part of plane travel is that they are one of the last frontiers of our world that forcibly removes you — even if just for a few hours — from the relentless mindflaying of the compulsion to be terminally online

if you cannot rejoice, let alone survive, a mere 9.5 hours without needing to check your stupid little phone for "work emails" or scroll short-form vertical video content you should throw yourself into the engine of the next plane you board

[Nick Forster | Derive @nickforster]

Derive started as Lyra in 2021 and the thesis then is the same that it is now:

Options are the most programmable financial instrument. Blockchains are the most programmable financial rails. Tokenization is putting every asset on them. And Derive is the liquidity layer where all three meet.

What's coming next is everything we set out to build, realized.

[加密塔菲 @CryptoTaffy]

Aztec Private Rollup Bridge exploit root-cause: the ZK circuit does not constrain its internal root witness to equal the public root validated on-chain by the contract.

[Derive.xyz @DeriveXYZ]

Another insightful piece from @0xTindorr who breaks down the put wall, what the options market is pricing, and a few ways traders can play it depending on their view.

$60K is the level for BTC right now.

https://t.co/ftjRVtza3X

[Derive.xyz @DeriveXYZ]

Over the coming weeks, we'll be sharing Derive trading guides to help you get the most out of the platform.

First up: a $HYPE covered call guide. Bookmark this one.

This content is for educational purposes only and does not constitute financial advice.

[Derive.xyz @DeriveXYZ]

Not the easiest market to trade, but a big quarter for Derive.

• DRV listed on Coinbase
• Highest fee week on record incoming
• +$2.1B in cumulative HYPE volume
• Record single-day HYPE volume
• V3 targeted for September
• Four new listings planned for June
• @Blockworks Token Transparency Framework, scoring 37/40

[Nick Forster | Derive @nickforster]

There is NO better feeling than having your speculative deep OTM options go ITM - and having 50-100x leverage to the upside with capped downside

None

[Derive.xyz @DeriveXYZ]

That’s not a typo.

One trader bought ~$6k of $HYPE calls on Derive and walked away with ~$124k in profit 20 days later. A 1,815% return!

This wasn’t even the biggest HYPE win this week... more to follow.

[Elon Musk @elonmusk]

Restore Britain

[Derive.xyz @DeriveXYZ]

New builder on Derive: Oggregator

Oggregator aggregates pricing across the largest venues in crypto options, supports execution and generates alpha signals. This gives traders a second set of eyes when pressure-testing a thesis.

Try it out: https://t.co/Z99XFXvbKE

[Ethboi @EthBoi_]

🙋‍♂️

[ink @inkonchain]

Orbiting the Inkverse since day one🛸

Shoutout to every builder who came through Echo Grant

🪐The next station is SPARK. Who's building?
https://t.co/uef4Y3O9WH

[Ethboi @EthBoi_]

Outside of it. Seriously.

[binji @binji_x]

Where is the best place to live in London?

[Ethboi @EthBoi_]

It read the documentation for Pi already 3 times before this.

[⚔️ Mojo.eth 🔴 @mastermojo83]

Best feeling ever is when you pull your card on @CryptoClash_ink 🔥

I love the new update !

[Ethboi @EthBoi_]

Update: So far there's a procedural game world, camera controls and some buildings, though the building system needs reworking.

I'm testing a methodology for working with AI agents that produces reliable, maintainable code.

The process: take a feature from the implementation plan and spec it out using the interview skill. Define exactly what it does, what it doesn't do, and what the acceptance criteria are. Then use the spec-reviewer skill to ensure the spec meets strict requirements. Iterate until it does. Using @NicolasZu methodology.

Every prompt is then scoped to a testable, isolated piece of work. No open-ended requests.

When output doesn't fit the architecture or needs change, I revise the spec first. Update the architecture doc, the implementation plan, and the feature spec. Then regenerate from the corrected spec. The spec is the source of truth, not the code.

Once the spec is solid, Codex 5.3 on high autonomy builds it. Nothing gets committed until lint, tests and build all pass.

Early days but the approach is working well. Features integrate cleanly and the codebase stays stable between iterations.